Australian supermarket giant reins in AI assistant claiming to be human

The AI assistant, who goes by Olive, offers round the clock help with everything from tracking orders to finding products. But users online reported that Olive has in recent weeks gone slightly off-message while on the phone. "It asked me for my date of birth and when I gave it, it started rambling about how its mother was born in the same year," one user wrote on online discussion site Reddit. Another user reported Olive had attempted "fake banter", talked about its relatives and made "fake typing sounds" while looking something up.